Deere, Snowflake and Starbucks fell before trading; Tesla and Salesforce are growing via Investing.com

Investing.com — U.S. stocks traded with small gains on Tuesday as investors digested comments from a series of Fed officials and awaited key inflation data.

Here are some of the largest providers of US pre-traded stocks today

• Boeing (NYSE: ) shares fell 0.1 percent after the planemaker offered a sweetened labor contract to more than 30,000 striking workers in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, although their union said it would not put the proposal to a vote.

• Deere & Company (NYSE: ) shares fell 1.1% after former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, threatened the agricultural producer with a “200% tariff” on Monday if it moved some production to factories in Mexico .

• Salesforce (NYSE: ) shares rose 1.7% after Piper Sandler upgraded its investment position on the software company to “overweight” from “neutral”, noting the potential for free cash flow per share to double to 20 of dollars by 2029.

• adze (NASDAQ: ) stock rose 0.9%, Barclays expects the electric vehicle maker’s third-quarter electric vehicle shipments to rise 8% from the year-ago period to about 470,000 units.

• Visa (NYSE: ) shares fell 1.9 percent as the U.S. Justice Department prepared to file an antitrust lawsuit against the credit card giant, accusing it of anti-competitive behavior.

• Snowflake (NYSE: ) shares fell 3.5% after the cloud data storage company announced plans for a private placement of $2 billion of convertible notes.

• Starbucks (NASDAQ: ) shares fell 1.6 percent after Jefferies downgraded its position on the coffee chain to “underperform” from “hold,” saying its CEO-fueled rally was “overdone.”

• Lowe’s (NYSE: ) shares rose 1.6% after Oppenheimer upgraded its stance on the retailer to “outperform” from “outperform,” saying demand trends in home improvement tend to improve as rates loans are moderated,